Crossword-Solution: NITROGLYCERIN
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| Nitroglycerin | n. | A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with NITROGLYCERIN (5)
The more closely volcanoes, Western rivers, nitroglycerin, and boys are pent, the deadlier is their action at the point of outbreak.
What's wrong? Why is it dry?" "Dick, seeing you're interested, I may as well tell you that a big charge of nitroglycerin choked my spring." "Nitroglycerin?" echoed Gale.
Although sodium nitrite and nitroglycerin have but a short period of action, in laboratory experimentation, in lowering the blood pressure, when given repeatedly four or five times a day the blood pressure is lowered in very many instances by these drugs.
One drop of the official spirit of nitroglycerin on the tongue will cause a lowering in the peripheral pressure pulse, the radial pulse becoming larger and fuller.
DRUGS IN HYPERTENSION The drugs that are mostly used to lower blood pressure are nitrites or drugs which are like nitrites, and these are nitroglycerin, sodium nitrite, erythroltetra nitrate and amyl nitrite, and the frequency of their use is in the order named.
Quotes with NITROGLYCERIN (1)
The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadn’t experienced since that dusty night in Texas thirty years earlier. It lasted for a year and a half and devastated me. When these moods hit me, usually few will notice — not Mr. Landau, no one I work with in the studio, not the band, never the audience, hopefully not the children — but Patti will observe a freight train bearing down, loaded with nitroglycer…